Re: The Warm Equations

On 6/27/2024 12:44 PM, Jerry Brown wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:37:23 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
 

On 6/25/2024 8:24 PM, Mad Hamish wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:03:27 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

 <snip>
 

Yes, but having a door that locks so that passengers can't just walk
into your shuttle seems like a fairly simple precaution without much
risk of problems from it

>
My immediate thought was "But it was written in the Golden Age when it
was just assumed that only those with an IQ higher than a potato's would
be allowed into space!"
>
Then reality drops a ton of potatoes on me.

 I recall one of Jack Williams' CT novels referring to the captain of a
ship handing over its keys (not sure if hatch, ignition or both).

Apparently, US military vehicles such as tanks and jet aircraft don't
have keys - they are normally stored in secure areas, and lost
per-vehicle keys would provide an failure path in an emergency.
Every now and then, you hear about someone taking a tank on a joyride,
and its even happened to jets on occasion.
pt